Japan Airlines announced it will enact stricter measures to monitor its crew members’ alcohol consumption after the carrier’s pilots failed multiple alcohol tests over the past year.
For uncomplicated pregnancies the airline allows travel up to 28 weeks into pregnancy without any medical notes
The airline does not allow travel from 36 weeks onwards for single pregnancies and 32 weeks for multiple pregnancies
Infants aged between 48 hours and 14 days can travel with Thomas Cook Airlines flights as long as they have a fit to fly certificate from their doctor.
A Japan Airlines co-pilot was arrested for being 10 times over the legal limit in Britain Sunday, prompting Japanese officials to consider tougher rules on alcohol consumption by airlines crew. Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA
New airport rules proposed by the government are currently being reviewed
Rules would allow police to refuse people to fly if don’t provide proof of ID
Travellers could also get fined up to $4,200 if the proposed amendments pass
The new rules are a response to an alleged attempt to blow up a Sydney flight
Singapore Airlines said it had stopped accepting lion bones for cargo after the carrier was singled out in a report for transporting the animal parts from South Africa
JetBlue started this round of bag fee hikes and United and Delta followed. American took a tiny bit longer, but bowed to the inevitable.
-Want to take a flight with your cat or dog that keeps you chill? Southwest Airlines says OK. But they’re right there with United Airlines on peacocks and Spirit Airlines on hamsters — they need to stay at home, take the train, or maybe the bus.
IATA has published results of a global survey of Human Resources professionals in the aviation industry highlighting key challenges in talent acquisition, training and retention.
Interjet Airlines today, announced yet another interline agreement, this time with EVA Air, providing customers convenient connections between the networks of the two airlines. Interjet Airlines customers connecting at Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) or San Francisco International Airport (SFO), can now travel to Taiwan and more than 64 destinations served
A350 XWB rolls out of paintshopThe first of seven ultra-long-range Airbus A350 XWB aircraft (www.airbus.com) being built for launch customer Singapore Airlines has rolled out of the paint shop in the carrier’s distinctive livery.
Revellers are set to prop up the bars of Glasgow later than anywhere else in Scotland as the city reveals plans to extending drinking hours until 4am.
“Kazakhstan passed the ICAO audit in 2017. The republic showed an 83 percent implementation of ICAO standards and recommended practices, according to the final assessment. This figure is 21 percent higher than the results of the previous ICAO audit,” the CAC added.
Downing Street is considering introducing dedicated airport passport queues for UK citizens
The Irish airline could be breaking the law by not compensating passengers
“I am urging Ryanair to cut the macho posturing, and address the issues that have been affecting staff for many years now.”
The White House has previously criticized the Chinese demand as “Orwellian nonsense.”
Budget airline Flybe has appointed former fighter pilot and assistant chief of air staff in the Ministry of Defence Sir Timothy Anderson as chief operating officer.
and cancel the licenses of the pilot and co-pilot involved in an emergency descent last week, Chinese state television said today.
Halfway across the world, the very same debate is currently in progress.
The airship era ended prematurely, Mr Henderson believes, after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937, which killed 36 people.
The airport said achieving the certification would ensure the airport community “meets the highest global standard for transporting pharmaceutical products by air”.
KLM said its last flight will leave Amsterdam on September 22 and return on September 23.
With this launch, American now serves two destinations in Mexico from Philadelphia, with it already operating to Cancún 15 times weekly this summer when referencing OAG schedules. The USB3 carrier already serves Mexico City from Charlotte Douglas, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Phoenix and Miami. In total American will offer 97 weekly departures to Mexico City across its six routes from the US in S18.
The new Istanbul airport is expected to boost Turkish aviation sector’s growth by 27.5 percent in the next three years.
He said the presentation of the Certificate of Compliance was an official approval of the process the project had gone so far.
China does not appear on a June 29 list of participants in the voluntary phase of the deal brokered by the International Civil Aviation Organization in 2016, according to ICAO’s website.
From the close proximity your seated next to strangers to the unpredictable turbulence, it’s easy to see why so many passengers wind up sick on airplanes.
The ramp expansion project is expected to be completed by October 2018. The new cargo building is projected to be completed by July 2019.
Forbes reports that more airlines are investing in Connected Aircraft technology, which allows onboard systems to communicate with pilots and airline staff on the ground on a variety of data points, from maintenance needs to weather information needed to plot ideal flight paths.
The Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs has licensed 60 organisers to arrange pilgrimage and each will get 100 seats on an average,” said Ayman Al Sitri, one of the organisers. The cost will cover entire expenses including airline tickets and stay at Mecca and Medina, he added.
Flyers travelling to, from major destinations will now go through additional screening; new baggage rules in effect
In any case, the FAA retained the criteria that ensure at least one circling procedure remains at airports that currently have a circling procedure.
Emotional-support animals are on the rise on planes and at airports. From 2016 to 2017, the number of emotional-support animals traveling onboard commercial flights increased by 74%.
Low-cost carrier AirAsia said that as at 8.30am, the I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS) was temporarily closed on Friday from 3am to 7pm local time.
In an important step forward in its efforts to address the role of air travel in contributing to climate change, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council adopted today the Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
The low-cost African airline backed by Easyjet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has warned this morning it could go bust unless emergency talks with shareholders yield new funding.
Three strikes and you’re grounded. That’s forever. Should solve the problem, no?
Delta Airlines has announced it is updating its service and support animal policy yet again to further enhance restrictions.
A direct flight between Korea’s Incheon Airport and Puerto Princesa Airport of Philippines’ Palawan launched on Saturday.
Ryanair has renewed its calls for a limit on early-morning drinking at airports.
